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t other name has it? Illustrate. What is a _triple rhyme_? Illustrate. When is triple rhyme usually employed? What is _middle rhyme_? Illustrate. What is _sectional_ rhyme? Illustrate. What is _alliteration_? What is said of it? Give illustrations from Mrs. Browning and Tennyson. 52. What is a stanza? What is a stanza of two lines called? of three? of four? Illustrate. Explain _rhyme royal_; _ottava rima_; Spenserian stanza. Illustrate. Explain the usual hymn meters, illustrating in each case. 53. What is blank verse? What is said of its freedom and difficulty? On what does its harmony depend? What is meant by _caesura_? What is an "end-stopt" line? A "run-on" line? What French name is used for the latter? What is meant by _period_? Into what does the _period_ practically divide blank verse? On what does Milton's "organ roll" depend? Point out a notable difference between Milton's and Shelley's blank verse. 54. What is meant by poetic style? What is said of poetic diction? Mention some poetic words. State some of the leading deviations in construction? ILLUSTRATIVE AND PRACTICAL EXERCISES The following selections should be examined in the light of such questions as these: Is it _poetry_ or _verse_? What lifts it above prose? Does it treat of nature, man, or God? Is it intellectual, emotional, or both? What is the poet's idea? Is it commonplace, true, elevated, delicate, exquisite? What is the mood of the poet,--serious, playful, humorous, calm, exalted? What imaginative features has it? What concrete pictures? What figures? Is it self-restrained and classic? Is it loose and voluble? As to structure, what is the fundamental foot? Name each line. What irregularities may exist and for what purpose? Is the movement slow or rapid? Explain the source of slowness or rapidity. What is the order of rhymes? Are they perfect or defective? Are there double, triple, middle, or sectional rhymes? Point out the alliteration. What is the effect? Name the stanza. Is it blank verse? Where does the caesural pause fall in each line? Is there variety? Are the lines "end-stopt" or "run-on"? Point out the poetic words. What is their effect? What poetic constructions are there? Divide the selections into three classes,--_feeble_, _
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